Measuring efficiency of general hospitals in the south of Iran

World Applied Sciences Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1310-1316

  Ahmadkiadaliri, Aliasghar ^a,b   Haghparast Bidgoli, Hassan ^c   Zarei, Asghar ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Khuzestan province; Pure technical efficiency; Return to scale; Scale efficiency; Technical efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861937765     PISSN: 18184952     EISSN: 19916426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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